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The Vermont AFL-CIO and the Emergency Committee For Rojava would like to invite you to a virtual exchange with representatives of trade unions in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), commonly known as Rojava, joined by their counterparts from Vermont AFL-CIO, David van Deusen (President) and Katie Harris (Executive VP).

The people of the AANES have heroically defeated ISIS and have been building an innovative autonomous government based on values of pluralism, direct participatory democracy, social ecology (as articulated by Vermonter Murray Bookchin), equity, and women’s liberation. Their new revolutionary system of collective government and self direction, not unlike Vermont's tradition of Town Meeting democracy, offers a unique example of how these values can be put in practice and could be a model for a secular the Middle East and beyond.

Trade union organizing has been…